sirp9898:

As long as you people is holding Igbo's backward you peoples is also backward.
Learn to liberate yourselves by standing a lone without Igbo's to help you.

You can only say that to those trooping to your region for survival.

omoharry:
When it comes to the two ethnic group that throws jabs at one another online ,the Igbos and the Yorubas have thier own fair share of abusing one another. So ,dont start with only the Jabs that have be thrown against the Yorubas by the Igbos, without capturing some horrible jabs that have been thrown at the Igbo by the Yorubas.
Stop playing the victim here- as if both ethnic group have not be at each others throat since 2015. If you know you don't have the stomach for unecessary insult, then your guys must stop throwing insulting statement all over the place just to annoy the other ethnic group. Don't you know it pinches them as much as it does to you ?
So, when it comes to insulting one another online , both the Igbos and the Yorubas are guilty of horrible comments against the other ethnic group .
However, that are not the reasons why people are skeptical of the Igbo presidency.
I think some of them as as follows:
1) Pro-Divsion advocate: I feel other ethnic group don't believe the Igbos will unit Nigerians, becos they are Pro-dis-integration of the country ,which the elite from the north don't want to hear.They feel that through an Igbo presidency, Nigeria can easily divide .

(2) Lack of Unity : The Igbos are not united . They don't have that unity of purpose to support a choosen & credible candidate among them, without allowing thier Ego and pride to get in the way .E.g Atiku/Peter Obis' case .

3) Past Sins: They still have not been forgiven for the killings of thier leaders in the first Republic.( Though the north have done worse than the Igbos and they still get elected ,so what is thier own) The general north still hold majority of the vote and nobody would want to risk thier ticket with an ethnic group that is not in good terms with the north .
4) No national figure from the Igbo extraction had been tested and praised by his works. Just like Osibanjo from the S.W. He managed to showed his leadership skills with the little time he was given to lead the country. On the other hand , most of the Igbo leaders from both APC & PDP have been a big disappointment and leave less to he desired .
The only person from the SE I know is Peter Obi &Umahi from PDP . Obi, Who is known on a national level becos of the last presidential election as a VP to Atiku. Umahi on the other hand, is good but he is not known on a national level.
Aside from these two ,the rest contenders, especially from the APC party are nothing to right home about .They are a complete disaster just like our other politicians.

There will be unity in the Southern Nigeria the day every trible learn to stay and survive in their regions or the day those resident in another people's region stop saying that their host's land is a no-man's land.

Malory:
Ayo Adebanjo is a man of integrity who speaks the truth at all times. He is a man of wisdom and doesn't mince word when he speaks reason why he is a highly respected Yoruba leader. What he said here is a good advice that both Tinubu and Osinbajo should heed without delay so as not to be on the wrong side of history

But did you notice what the man said about whether there's a country in the first place. When Afenifere was shouting some years back about the need to restructure the country and create state police, especially during Obasanjo's presidency, some people's response was that Obasanjo was the president of Nigeria and not of Yoruba land. Why that response? Because they felt restructuring and state police would prevent them from eyeing their neighbour's region and claiming ownership of the land thereof. They felt restructing would checkmate their aggression.

Even during GEJ's confab, Afenifere reechoed their voice, calling for regional autonomy and state police but covetousness and deliberate refusal from some quarters to accept the reality would not allow Afenifere's yearnings to see the light of the day. The same OBJ, who didn't want restructuring and state police during his tenure, is now calling for state police, not even community police, as the panacea to the insecurity challenge confronting the nation.

Until the problem created by the Decree 34 of 1966 under Ironsi and the introduction of presidential system to Nigeria under Muritala/OBJ government is resolved, the country's progress may be halted for a long time to come.

cocolacec:
Adebanjo has no right to tell Yorubas not to contest.No Yoruba appointed him to speak for us.He only expressed his personal opinion as a son of an Igbo woman.

I think Afenifere need to retire these old men and replace them with fresh blood.Imagine Ohaneze telling Igbos not to contest but to leave the stage for Benin man.

If Afenifere truly support Yoruba’s interests,their priority will be to always defend Yoruba interests above all odds.

There's freedom of speech and he has the right to express his opinion. Everybody has that right.

Great2017:

I have only one question for you. What is equity?

According to your dictionary, Equity is doing something but asking another person not to do it. Equity is, if there are ten loaves of bread on the table for 10 people to share, you must pick 9 and allow the remaining 9 people to share just only 1. Equity is also having your land kept for you but eyeing that of your neighbour and calling it a no-man's land. Equity to you can also mean taking advantage of others or cheating them in business deals. All these attributes are equity, according to your dictionary, and they can also be described as ability to compete or to show that "you get sense pass them".

cocolacec:

Adebanjo’s mother is an Igbo woman.Fact.Who dey do Esusu before 1967 if not Igbos.That is where Adebanjo’s mother was saving her money.

I doubt if you know what is called, Ajo, Aaro, and Owe.

Frigga13:
Nigerians should not discourage any Yoruba .. especially The Yoruba god Tinubu

Is his right .. to contest

Tinubu must be on ballot
Must

We don’t care about party again .. because we already know

Contest he must
And all Yoruba must give him all their vote .. to avoid excuses or twist of stories or Yorubatic narratives.. they sabi twist..

Nigerians must all encourage druggie please ..

Is better we tell him how we love him with our votes
Yoruba

Power to the people
North 2023

Sounds beggarly, frustrated, and fearful.

jaxxy:


Not tinubu alone bt all those concerned. Stop making it look like tinubu us smtn special.

"Ohaneze and many others have spoken several times and even written letters to tinubu bt he has refused to listen. He even wants to drag it with osibanjo. lol"

Nobody is making it look like Tinubu is something special here, except your very self. Why did you mention above that a letter was written to Tinubu? Why Tunubu of all the people? And like you mentioned, Tinubu is not something special and that's why no one should tell him to drop his ambition. Someone that is nothing special poses no special threat.

Meanwhile, I have read most of your comments to people here and observed that it's either you, as a person, don't know what you want or you are confused or you don't know the right approach to getting what you want. It may also be a deliberate action on your part to prove stubborn rather than listen to advice. Normally, I will not give a damn about what poses no threat or special interest to me. Since you know the "handpickers", I will advise that you arrange to meet them in order to get your candidate handpicked rather than tell someone to drop his ambition. One thing you should know is that you may not find it easy to get people outside your region to do your bidding by threat or sheer arrogance, especially where those people feel you are not that important to them.

MANofMEN:
Although not many people take him serious but United States-based Nigerian professor, Farouk Kperogi has earned for himself a reputation of one with undisguised bile, not just for anything Buhari but also the nation, and he has added a few more enemies to his long list.

Recently, Kperogi has become a self-appointed enemy of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and he's relishing the appetite of his equally undiscerning and mischievous readers with fabricated falsehood.

Against all intents and logics, even when it has been disputed by people who should know, Kperogi kept alleging that Osinbajo, should he be trusted with power and Nigeria's president, will Christianize Nigeria.

Laughable as this sounds, it beats imagination that anyone would get drowned in Kperogi's narrative, with his unscholarly eavesdropping and beer parlour gists, and when he did at all, clinging only to hearsays.

However, against all his pretences and disguise, the hatchet writer has been unveiled to be doing the bidding of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.

Amaechi, who eyes the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, this newspaper can reliably gathered, is bankrolling Kperogi to advance vicious and damaging propaganda to tarnish the reputation of the Vice President with the intent to sow hatred against him from among the Northern population.

The plot, this newspaper learnt, was to twist the faith of Osinbajo, who is a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, and recent creation of the political directorate by the Church, to blackmail the Vice President.

Kperogi's paymaster, has for some time detailed a team to search out Prof Osinbajo to see the possibility of nailing him on corruption allegations, but having failed to lay hand on any of such, resolved that turning the Northern population against him would be fait accompli to make him unattractive to the Muslim voters.

Although he has not yet declare interest to run for the 2023 presidential election, notwithstanding, the Vice President has become a subject of bitter attack from contenders within the ruling party and beyond, especially from those that believe that his interest would pose a major threat to their chances should he throw in the hat to contest. And Kperogi has become a willing tool.

Political observers believe that the Osinbajo campaign team has to brace up for more attacks from the likes of Kperogi.

This, they opined will get messier and fierce as the chances of Osinbajo become brighter, so also will the desperation to rein him in and jerk him to surrender, regardless of how unfounded the allegations might be.

The Minister's handlers had narrowed down on Kperogi's choice for the hatchet job sensing that he would not be easily suspected, in view of his past attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari with whom he was similarly fixated in the past.

Farooq has made himself a defender of the SW Moslems, who according to him, are being oppressed by their christian counterparts. He sees himself as SW Muslims' liberator except you are just coming across his writings. Nevertheless, you will hardly see him condemn what the Northern Christians are being subjected to, despite that he's from that region.

One doubts if Farooq was a Nigerian when Alhaji Adedibu held Oyo State to ransom while Alhaji Saraki held sway in Kwara State. As far as Farooq is concerned, SW Christians in Lagos State, for instance, where BAT calls the shots and the moslems dominate both the traditional stools and the State House of Assembly membership, are still oppressing their moslem counterparts but in the North all is well with the Christian faithfuls.

jaxxy:


Ohaneze and many others have spoken several times and even written letters to tinubu bt he has refused to listen. He even wants to drag it with osibanjo. lol

If others can be handpicked igbo president can be handpicked. it is the fair thing to do at this stage of our democracy.

So, Tinubu is the one handpicking who will be what? And the application for handpicking can be done by sending a letter to him? Tinubu is the one that will handpick who will rule over the entire country? Immmm. Are you sure this Tinubu you are talking about is not from that zone known for TREACHERY, BETRAYAL and COWARDICE? Then why call him all sort of unprintable names as we read again and again?

jaxxy:


I don't know what u are talking about.

All I am saying is Yaradua was handpicked, obasanjo was handpicked, Goodluck was handpicked, fashola was handpicked, Ambode was handpicked, sanwolu was handpicked.

why can't an igbo man be handpicked same way?

I don't know who will win if an igbo, hausa or yoruba contests. we have never known either since they have mostly been handpicked.

anything else u interpret is ur imagination.

Handpicked by who? Who handpicked who? Since you knew who handpicked someone like Fashola and were privy to how the handpicking was done, would it not be good to meet that person and discuss the issue of handpicking with the fellow rather than coming online to shout about that? Isn't dialogue in humility better than arrogant threat?

And since we don't know what the outcome may be, is it not good to allow each of those candidates from the SW, SE, and SS to try their luck now that the shout is that power must shift to the South?

So, if my impression is wrong and only sparks of imagination as against reality, it means all the candidates from the South, whose turn it is for the presidency, are equally qualified to contest. No one should ask candidates from the SW or SS to step down for candidates from the SE, therefore. Alternatively, you can meet with the people that handpicked Fashola, Ambode, etc. to have your candidates handpicked as well.

Sonoyom:


This democracy, the man with the number will alway win.
Nigerian constitution does not recognise 'turn by turn' leadership.

It obvious that you want power to be placed on your lap, to you that's justice and fairness. Ok ooooo

Not just the numbers, coverage also matters. It's important to note the 25% and 2/3 rules as well.

jaxxy:


Then why is PDP saying power should return to the south when Yaradua\North only served 2 years under them?

PDP should then say power must come to the North after Jonathan.

Bt truth is the unwritten law applies nationally not just based on which party. Nobody irrespective expects power to go to the North after Buhari`s 2 terms bt Apc south west doesn't want to recognise its igbos turn to rule Nigeria.

This sounds cowardly and defeatist! Are the Yorubas saying the Ibos should not contest, especially if both APC and PDP zone their tickets to the South? Have the Yorubas said no one from the SW, SS, or SE should contest? Are you indirectly saying if an Ibo man contests with a Yoruba man, the Yoruba man will win - Yes or No? Are we not having candidates who are showing interest from SS, the same region that produced GEJ? Are you indirectly saying the STRONG and ALL-KNOWING man is afraid of the WEAK, DIRTY, and LAZY man? I don't seem to understand your points.

EagleNest:


It's not about Yorubas but every Nigerian. I know we banter and compete alot but that does not mean we can't be reasonable for once for the survival of Nigeria.

You're the one competing, thinking some people are competing with you. You may not be aware that those you consider your competitors, and are trying to measure up with in a rat-race similitude are just going their own way, charting their cause ordinarily.

EagleNest:


Yes and No!

Yes - because if we continue at the current trajectory it will only end in disintegration.

No - because if we amend our ways today and forge a common purpose to unite Nigeria instead of "my" tribe/religion first, then we can move forward. Think of unity of Nigeria and take action, do not pretend and overlook, hoping somehow things will sort itself out. Naaah!!! Turn by Turn Bros!

The best way to unite is for the country to restructure into regional autonomies. A united Nigeria that will make some non-indigenous tribes to be telling their host tribes that their (the host's) ancestral home is a no-man's land, or where some herders will be forcefully taking other people's ancestral land, killing them, maiming them, and raping their wives/daughters will not work.

Every tribe should remain in their region and develop it and if someone is leaving their region to another region, he should not be allowed to interfere in the local policy/politics of the region he went. He should be made to complete an official registration, given a residency status and not an indigeneship status. That's the practice even in some advanced democracies. It's the way to preserve our diverse cultural identities. Calling a people's land a no-man's land or forcefully taking a people's ancestral land should be considered a serious crime.

A region cannot be borrowing to develop itself in infrastructures only to be bearing the burden of people from other regions whose leaders are having fun with their resources. Beggarly, parasitic, feeding-bottle federal unity is not a desirable one.

EagleNest:



If that's the case then there is no point of pretending we have a nation called Nigeria, as it can not work if we are only after our regional interests. Like I said before, it will not be easy if SE is schemed out again whether PDP or APC or both, because I doubt if they will want to remain in whatever becomes of Nigeria. And if SE goes, I imagine what Nigeria will be like. Give SE breathing space, support them to lead.

And do you think some people really care if SE leaves as long as they don't invade other territories in order to force them into their new country the way Russia is doing Ukraine? If you pay close attention to comments online, you will observe that some Nigerians don't really care if everybody goes back to their regions.

EagleNest:


That's according to you, but let's see how it pans out eventually. Politics is too dynamic to be certain what will happen tomorrow but the fall outs can make or mar, if not handled well.

And do you think some Nigerians, even from the SW, care if the country is restructured or broken such that every tribe goes back to their region? You'd better learnt to be humble. "Pride goes before destruction" is an old and tested adage.

EagleNest:


It is not a threat but apparently what I see coming.

And it is the right thing for both parties to do because AD/APP and PDP did similar thing before for SW. I don't see why it can't happen this time around.

No, AD/APP did not zone their ticket to the SW. AD was originally formed in the South West and that was why it won all the gubernatorial elections in that zone at that time despite that the PDP's presidential candidate - Obasanjo - was also from that zone. Obasanjo did not even win his polling booth. PDP was viewed by majority in the West as a Northern party which should not be voted for after what the North had done to MKO and a lot of other Yorubas and Nigerians then. Points can be made without adding emotions or lies.

Going by your logic, it would be better if APGA/SDP presents an Ibo candidate and the PDP presents another Ibo candidate. AD, like the Action Group - AG - of those days, was a Yoruba-formed party the same way APGA was an Ibo-formed party. APGA can form alliance with another small party like SDP the same way AD formed alliance with another small part called APP at the presidential level at that time.

EagleNest:


It's not about Yorubas but every Nigerian. I know we banter and compete alot but that does not mean we can't be reasonable for once for the survival of Nigeria.

How is it about Nigeria? If the two big parties of APC and PDP zone their tickets to the South, is it not left for the candidates in the South to compete among themselves? Even the Middle Belt, I.e., the North Central has been advocating for a Southern candidate; hence, Nigeria has done its part. So far, the COWARD Yorubas are not complaining of asking an Ibo man not to contest, all they have been saying is that power must come to the South as it went to the North after Obasanjo and just as the power came back to the South after the death of Yaradua. As it is, Yorubas don't compete with the Ibos but will rather chart their own cause.

On the contrary, the GREAT Ibos have been complaining about having a Yoruba man contest. They care less about someone from the South South contesting and, as it seems, they would not mind supporting a Northern candidate in order to get the VP slot, not the Presidential slot. So, logically, can we say the GREAT and MOST INTELLIGENT tribe called Ibos are scared of the LAZY and DULLEST tribe called Yorubas?

I have read it many times online where the Ibos boasted and requested for a day that the MOST POWERFUL tribe called Ibos and the WEAKEST tribe called Yorubas will fight. I think this is the long-awaited opportunity.

EagleNest:
Agitation will be worst or on overdrive if SE is short-changed again. Let SE have their turn, then afterwards it can be thrown open. That's in the spirit of equity, justice and fairness. Other than this, I don't see Nigeria enjoying peace. We have had enough of blood shed, it's not good to pretend it doesn't concern all of us.

Are the GREAT Ibos afraid of the COWARD Yorubas?

SmartPolician:
South West politicians must be the most selfish human beings in this world, including the one who calls himself a pastor.

Are they saying you should not contest? Didn't you people say the Yorubas are weak, lazy, and coward? Are you being scared of competing with a weak, lazy, and coward man?

amuwo1980:
The south east will be completely ungovernable by next year if you don’t do to them what you did to other regions and the effects will be great , refugees will swamp that lagos and Abuja with the attendant diseases and stress for all to share. You don’t peace and justice right ok we shall see

Are the Ibos being scared of contesting with the Yorubas or what? I thought the Ibos are said to like competition. It appears Ohaneze has already concluded that the Yoruba candidate will win their own candidate if both candidates compete in an election. Don't be scared to contest please.

EagleNest:
Agitation will be worst or on overdrive if SE is short-changed again. Let SE have their turn, then afterwards it can be thrown open. That's in the spirit of equity, justice and fairness. Other than this, I don't see Nigeria enjoying peace. We have had enough of blood shed, it's not good to pretend it doesn't concern all of us.

You want the country divided? Okay.

Emergingnation3:
And yet you has been fighting to keep your Imaginery biggest enemy in Nigeria against their very will...

Nobody is stopping you as long as you don't force other tribes like the Itsekiris to join you.

Burruchaga71:
This news has made my day. I said these and am still saying it again, Tinubu or Osunbade can NEVER ever govern the great Igbos. It will never happen. Unless they are ready to rule Oduduwa republic. Bunch of saboteurs

Then, the Ibos also will not be allowed to rule over other tribes. Okay?

maasoap:
Let the betrayer try, we know he has already failed. The man that couldn't even locate his polling unit. Fvcking traitor

Those that kept quiet on religious affiliation ground when their kinsmen were being killed, maimed, or raped by marauders, or those that even denied the killings just because they share the same faith with the killers are the real BETRAYERS.

murmee:
That's not true. It is only in Osun state that there's majority Muslim. Ekiti and Ondo states have majority Christians. In Oyo and Ogun states, it is 50% each and in Lagos states, the Christians are 65% because Lagos has a lot of non-Yorubas that are Christians!

Even in Osun, the gap is marginal. Is it not the same Osun where Kumuyi, Adeboye, Mike and Gloria Bamiloye of Mount Zion Faith Ministry, Abiara of CAC, late prophet Obadare, and a number of other ministers of God hail from? It's only the Oyo-speaking part that appears to have moslem majority from my understanding of the State, and that may be because of the polygamy stance of Islam.

etokhana:

http://muslimrightsmuric..com/2022/04/osinbajos-declaration-is-rccgisation-of.html?m=1

MURIC Akintola Ishaq just de-marketed the Jagaban.

HAKYN1:

I want to clear your ignorance, Islam is guided by Quran and hadith not even the Arabs. Then who is a fulani man?

And we can see the fruits of that guidance all over the world.

abdullahi45:


The country is definitely doomed by bigots and religious intolerant fellows like you who sternly go against all good so far it is not recommended by his religious counsel. It is utterly clear who is void of logic here. Your bigotry shouldn't cost you a logical reasoning, man..

So asking Amotekun to be disbanded while criminal herdsmen continue to kill farmers on their fields is what you and your jihad professor consider a good thing?

mu2sa2:
Go and ask him.

You sounded confused.

tartar9:
The man is a nightmare to a lot of people,but all lovers of truth and justice loves you our dearest Prof.

No wonder he wanted Amotekun to be disbanded so that you killers can continue to have a field day.